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FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK : COLEOPTERA. 
a considerable number apparently in their natural 
habitation, the decayed stumps of trees that had 
been cut down by the side of ditches which 
frequently overflowed them. We dug many out 
of the trees, so completely enveloped that it was 
difficult to imagine how they could have got there, 
unless they had resided in the wood in their larvie 
state. It is evidently a very local species attached 
to damp situations, and able in warm weather to 
fly with celerity ” (Curtis). 
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Common. 
Norfolk (Stephens). 
Common at roots of grass, &c. 
in damp places. 
Pterostichus NIGER, Schal. 
„ MELANARIUS, 111. 
„ ANTHRACINUS, 111. 
„ NIGRITA, Fab. > 
„ MINOR, Gyll. 
„ STRENUUS, Panz. 
„ DILIGENS, Sturm. . 
„ madidus, Fab. Very abundant. 
„ striola, Fab. Father local. • 
Amara fulva, De G. Mousehold Heath ; not common. 
,, aprioaria, Payk. Common, especially in sandy places. 
„ consularis, Duft. Scarce; Brandon, Hunstanton (Fowler); 
Mousehold Heath. 
,, spinipes, Linn. Common ; generally taken by sweeping. 
„ convexiuscula, Marsh. Hunstanton (Fowler) ; Cley, 
August, 1889. 
„ infima, Duft. Norfolk (Stephens). 
,, bifrons, Gyll. Postwick Grove, July, 1875 ; Cromer, 
August, 1890 (Thouless). 
„ lucida, Duft. ^ 
„ tibialis, Payk. - Common. 
„ FAMILIARIS, Duft. J 
,, acuminata, Payk. Mousehold Heath, July, 1885 (Thouless). 
„ trivialis, Gyll. Common. 
,, lunicollis, Schiod. Mousehold Heath, June, 1S83 ; 
Horning, May, 1889 (Thouless). 
„ communis, Panz. \ 
„ ovata, Fab. ] 
„ similata, Gyll. j 
Not common. 
